Game appliance.



C. B. DENNY.

GAME APPUANCE.

APPLICATION FILED mna. 1914.

1, 144, 1 1 2. Patented June 22, 1915.

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CLARENCE B. DENNY, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR '10 WEIGHT 6% DITSON. 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GAME APPLIANCE Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 8, 1914. Serial no. siroas.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE B. Denny. of Milton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, a citlzen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Game Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a knockdown table or board for parlor use having a peculiar construction whereby various games such'as shinny in the box, pufi' hockey, table tennis, quoits, parlor squash, or the like may be played, and its construction w11l be understood from the drawings in which it is shown in its preferredit'orm.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device embodying my invention, Fig. 2 showing it in plan when packed for shipment or when not in use. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 83 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of the under side of the board reduced in size, Fig. 5 being a similar view of the upper side of the table when arranged for playing parlor squash.

This device in its preferred form comprises a table or board A, which may conveniently be, say five feet long, and approxi-y mately three feet wide. To the two sides are attached by hinges side pieces B, B These side pieces are provided with dove tail grooves at b to receive the end pieces C, C these end pieces each being provided at each end with dove tails to fit into the grooves b as shown. A' middle partition D is also provided with dove tails d to fit into suitable grooves in the side pieces, these grooves not being shown. The partition D is somewhat higher than the side pieces. The side and end pieces are perforated with small openings 0 arranged at distances, say six inches apart, or any other convenient distance, these openings being approximately one and one half inches in diameter, and in addition the end pieces C, C are each provided with a goal opening C The partition D is provided with two similar arched openings D D each located a distance from one end of the partition equaling about one quarter the length of the partition. The openings C C and D D are approximately two and one half inches in width.a little larger than the ball to be used in playing the game. Upon the top of the partition D is a slight depression (Z in which the ball with which of ones own court and the ame is to be put into play.

In addition to the ball the game of shinmy in the box is played by means of hockey stlcks E which are preferably somewhat smaller than the sticks used in the ordinary hockey game. The game is played by two players. each having a hockey stick and the ball being placed upon the depression 03 The purpose of each player is to drive the ball through the goal opening C in his opponents court, the openings D being used as occasion may require to force the ball out into his opponents. The openings 0 are to be used in playing the game of pufl hockey wherein a small air pump or blow-gun is used with a light ball, for example, an air-filled celluloid ball. The openlngs c are large enough to receive the nozzle of the blow-gun and to allow the played may be placed when user considerable range in aiming his blow-' gun at the ball. The number of holes or openings 0 may be any number convenient and, as in the hockey game above described,

the purpose is to make a goal by blowing the ball through the openings C in the opponents court.

This device also lends. itself to thegame of quoits or ring toss, a socket a and the other requirements of the game being countersunk on its under side, the pin upon which the rings are to be received being mounted in said socket. The pin is not shown as it is well known in the art. The bottom or under side of the table may also be marked off to indicate a tennis court for use in parlor tennis, (see Fig. 4 where the lines a a divide the board into courts, a net being supported on the dotted line a.) The side and end walls in these cases serve as a support for the base which may be further supported upon a table or otherwise as thought best. The partition in this case should be removed so that the structure shall be steady and rest on a firm foundation.

By being stood on end and properly marked off by the lines a, a into courts A Patented June 22, 11915.

against the floor of the base A as shown in Fig. 2. The two end pieces C, C are placed as shown in Fig. 2 and against them the artition D and, if desired, the hockey sticks E, E. A strip or bar F which is ivoted to one of the side pieces B at f and 1ts free end being normally screwed thereto by a thrust screw 7, is then swung around into a osition across the various parts and is astened by the screw 1 to the side piece B.

It is? desirable that t e end piece C be constructed of the shape shown in Fig. 2 where it will be noted that strips have been cut from it as at 0 These strips are attached to one end of the table A and form cleats 0 0 and are so shaped and arranged on the base that when the end piece C is in place on the base, they will register, with and close the opening 0 which would otherwise exist at the-bottom of the end piece C, leaving, however, the goal opening C. When the table is knocked down one of these strips 0 serves as a stop to engage the ends of the pieces 0, C when these pieces are packed for shipment, while the other strip 0 serves in like manner to engage one end of the partition D as well as the ends of the hockey sticks E. If desired, spring catches of any well known character indicated at f may be used to lock and prevent the parts C, C D and E from sliding out of place after they have been clamped by the bar F.

An important feature of this device is the lining of the various pieces C, C B, B and also the lining of both sides of the partition D with cushioning material d whereby the noise otherwise unpreventable can be deadened. Such material may be felt or cloth or cork. In addition those parts of the hockeys which are likely to strike the ball or any part of the apparatus are also preferably covered with some such sound-deadening material.

I do not mean to limit myself to the exact construction shown.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A game board comprising a base having side walls and removable end walls, said side walls and end walls being perforated,

end walls, said end walls having goal openings and said partition having passages Y therethrough.

3. A game board having side walls, end walls and a partition parallel to said end walls, said endwalls having goal openings and said partition having passa es .there through, said side walls, said ends walls and both sides of said partition being covered with sound-deadening material.

4. .A game board comprising a base having hinged side walls, removable end walls, and a removable partition parallel to said end Walls, said end walls having goal openings and said partition having passages therethrough, said side walls, said end walls and both sides of said partition being covered with sound-deadening material.

5. A game board comprising a base, side walls, end walls, and a partition supported between said side walls, said partition and two opposing walls being removable and the other two opposing walls being hinged to said base, whereby said game board may be folded for shipment.

6. A game board comprising a base, side walls, end walls, and a partition supported between said side walls, said partition and two opposing walls being removable and the other two opposing walls being hinged to said base, said base being provided with cleats at one end thereof and one of said hinged walls being provided with a bar pivoted thereto, whereby Said game board may' be folded for shipment, and means whereby the free end of said bar may be locked to the other hinged wall, and means whereby said bar when in locked position may engage and lock said removable walls and partition against said cleats.

7. A game board of the kind described comprising a base and end walls having goal openings therethrough, and hinged side walls, said end walls being removable, said base being provided with cleats at one end thereof, and one of said end walls being cut away to fit over said cleats whereby said cleats will form a portion of said end wall.

CLARENCE ,B. DENNY.

Witnesses GEORGE O. G. CoALE, I M. E. FLAHERTY. 

